Advocating between customers and engineers for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have a particular impact on your team and others.
Managing projects simultaneously and executing day-to-day tasks to ensure timely delivery.
Communicating progress and ensuring alignment with important stakeholders and engineers.
Supporting architecture of backend services as part of the platform ecosystem with an emphasis on automation, testing, and security.
Creating high-quality technical documentation for processes and software architecture for Sphinx software.
Owning the product backlogs, significantly contributing to the software roadmap, and aligning engineers on the most important problems to solve and why.
Influencing the space ecosystem through software demonstrations, relationships, marketing documentation, etc.
Scaling the services and solving interesting Space Communication challenges.
Requirements
5+ years of working on or leading software development product teams to ship functional software
Exceptional communication skills, working with the government and mission partner end-users to design solutions to their needs
Demonstrable experience translating between highly technical customer requirements and software development objectives
Strong technical writing ability
Strong knowledge in cloud-based systems (AWS, Gitlab, Slack, etc)
Have experience with Figma, and or other design tools
Made enough mistakes and booked enough wins to know what not to build and what good looks like.
The ability to learn quickly and thrive in a fast-paced ambiguous environment.
Benefits
Compensation includes competitive salary
Meaningful equity ownership
Profit sharing
Employer 401(k) contribution
100% employer covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
software developmentcloud-based systemstechnical writingautomationtestingsoftware architectureproject managementproduct backlog managementsoftware demonstrationsSpace Communication